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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-12-01
The Newspaper Diet.

The Young man that boards on South
Division street really looked emaciat-
ed last night. His eyes were hollow
and his cheeks sunken.
"What ails you?"
ga newspaper diet, that's what ails
me. Somebody sent our landlady a
Ladies' Home Journal or something with
a list of cheap dishes for a week, and
the result is we've had fricasseed tooth
brushes and sawdust croquettes all the
week. Here's the receipt for the Gro
quettes; copied it; listen: One quart
hemlock sawdust, free at any carpenter !;
two eggs, five cents; half cupful of flour,
one cent; pinch of summer-savory and
salt. Mix the sawdust, flour and con-
diments well together; beat the eggs
briskly four minutes and pour in; stir
well, and shape into croquettes; sprinkle
with flour and fry over hot fire. But
ter will cost two cents, fire one cent.
Serve hot and eat quickly There,
that costs nine cents; call it ten for
round numbers. There were six of us
at table that night, and we swallered
'em before we knew what they we're
made of. We wouldn't aknown then,
only my roommate got a big chip in his
throat and had to reject half of his GRO
quette and the truth came out with it.
Giving dinners at cent apiece, first
cost, our landlady ought TO grow rich.
We didn't make any fuss about the GRO
quotes, but when it came to palming
off bean soup which cost five cents a
gallon, colored with 'rosaline for beauti-
flying the finger nails, as tomato soup,
the table rose and tore up the Ladies'
Home Journal. / am willing to eat saw
dust in the shape of croquette, but
rosaline in my soup is too much, too
much. "--BOtaEO Courier.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-12-01
A Curious Superstition i'm India.

The London Times says: can ex-
traordinary appeal has just been heard in
Madras, which F7rss in evidence the
active character of existing superstitions.
One of the accused in the original case
gave birth in December last to male
child having four eyes, the face of a
monkey, and crooked arms and legs,
while it grunted like pig Immediately
on its birth. The midwife placed the
child under trough and sat upon it,
both she and the mother raising cries OF
alarm. The male prisoners then came
and took the child into n field and
killed it by striking it on the head with
a club.
Their explanation was that the child
was an evil spirit, which they were JUS
titled by the custom of the country in
killing, in order to prevent it from do
ing evil. The Judge acquitted them on
the ground of a mistake of fact. This
decision was necessarily upset on ap-
peal. The accused believed that unless
the child had been killed it would have
grown to an immense size and devas-
tated the country, and that they were,
therefore, committing meritorious ac-
ton in obviating so grave public cal
amity.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-12-01
DisciDIine the Eve

A very good way to discipline the
mechanical eye is to first measure an
inch with the eye, then prove 1t with a
rule. then measure a half-inch, then
an eighth, and so on, and you will soon
be able to discover at a glance the
difference between a twelfth and a
sixteenth of an inch; then go to three
inches, six, twelve and so on. Some
call this guessing; there is no guess
work about it. 1t is measuring with the
eye and mind. Acquire the habit of
criticising for imperfections every piece
of work that you see; do everything as
nearly as you can without measuring Tor
spelling it, or as nearly as you can
trust the eye with its present training.
If you cannot see things mechanically,
do not blame the eye for it; it is no more
to blame than the mouth is because we
cannot read, or the fingers because we
cannot write. A person may write very
good hand with the eyes closed, the
mind, of course, directing the fingers.
The eye is necessary, however, to detect
imperfections. Every operation in life
requires mechanically trained eye, and
we should realize more than we do the
great importance of. properly training
that organ.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-12-01
Drinking Before Meals.

An acquaintance who has suffered
sorely from dyspepsia for number of
years, and has tried most of the numer-
Gus remedies host of kind friends have
recommended for her relief, hands us
the following article from the IMedical
Ne'cs, with the request that it be printed.
Our dyspeptic friend has found great
relief in following the directions, and it
is hoped others may be also benefited:
''In the morning the stomach con-
tains considerable quantity of mucus
spread over and adherent to its walls.
If food enters at this time, the tenacious
mucus will interfere, to some extent,
with the direct contact between the food
and the stomach necessary to provoke
the secretion of gastric juice. A glass
of water, taken before breakfast, passes
through the stomach into the small in
testines in O continuous and uninter-
rupted flow. 1t partly distends the
stomach, stretching, and to some extent
obliterating, the rug@; it thins and
washes out most of the tenacious mu-
GUS; it increases the fullness of the
capillaries of the stomach, directly if the
water is warm, and indirectly in reac-
tionary way if it is cold; it causes peri
stalsis of the olimentary tract, wakes it
up ESQ to speak,, and gives it morning
exercise and washing. Care must be
taken not to give cold water when the
circulation, either local or general, is SO
feeble as to make reaction improbable.
We should not risk it in advanced age,
nor in the feeble, whether old or young,
nor should it be given in local troubles,
like chronic gastric catarrh. In these
cases it is best to give warm or hot
water. The addition of salt is very
beneficial. Such a time-honored Gus
tom as drinking soup at the beginning
of meal could only have been so per-,
sistently adhered to because of it hav-
ing been found by experience to be the
most appropriate time. 1t does exactly
what warm or hot water, with the add
ton of salt, does, and more, in that it is
nutritive and excites the flow of gastric
Juice"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-12-01
"WITH BUBBLTNG GROANy"
A Fatal Sense of Security Awfu1Iy Real
lied ut sea.
"a wet sheet and a flowing sea, breeze that fol-
lou, foef

"A wet sheet and flowing sea, breeze that fol-
lows fast"
From his lookout the faithful old Capital
of yonder merchantmen casts an uneasy glance
at the distant horizon. Seel yOnder a small
speck of cloud no larger than mans hand"
He watches it with his piercing eye for few
moments, then reaches for his long eyeglass.
To his experienced view this harmless little
cloud betokens danger
Across his bronzed face there comes a look
of determination, and, with quick orders to
the seamen, the craft is put about and all sail
made for the nearest harbor, where in APP
parent safety the anchor is dropped, and the
hardy mariners watch the approaching storm
with defiance!
The storm bursts!
The decks have been cleared, the sales close
furled, and all ordinary preparations made
for an emergency
The storm increases but all seems safe.
But see the vessel gives a sudden lurch,
turns quickly about, and away she goes
The anchor chain has broken
This mighty ship might have ridden safely,
but for one weak link in that anchor chain
The strength of the chain is no greater
than the strength of its weakest link.
On the sea of life, how many men are
wrecked because of the unsupported weak
ness of link in the chain of health,-o
weak vital organ in the body
The mystery of death is even greater than
the mystery of life. We think the links of
our chain are strong, but we too seldom
critically examine them for ourselves, and
never really knotO that they will bear the
strain that we put upon them.
81 have a FRIEND" said DR.. Dio Lewis,
"who can lift 900 pounds, and yet is an
habitual sufferer from kidney and liver trou-
bic and low spirits" The doctor who, was
one of the wisest and safest public teachers
of the laws of health, wrote:
''The very marked testimonials from col
lege professors, respectable physicians, and
other gentlemen of intelligence and charac-
ter, to the value of Warmers safe cure, have
greatly surprised me. Many of these gentle
men know, and, reading their testimony,
was impelled to purchase some bottles of
Warmers safe cure and analyze it. Besides |
took some swallowing three times the pre-
scribed quantity | am satisfied that the
medicine is not injurious, and will frankly
add that if 1 found myself the victim of Sc
rious kidney trouble L should use this prep
aration.n
One year ago the Seruia, while in a great
storm, parted her two-inch rudder chain-no
wonder-it lOaS 7'uSted through! The key to
human health is the condition of the kidneys
and they may long be diseased and we be ig-
norant of the fact, because they give forth
little or no pain. They in reality cause the
majority of all the deaths by polluting the
blood and sending disease all through the sys-
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-12-01
Punting on the Thames.

Parties of ladies and gentlemen were
pushing and pulling to and fro, and
landing and embarking at the floats,
which were covered with ''boats for
hire" Sometimes lady was pulling
and her 'feller" would lie back at his
ease in the stern sheets, and sometimes
it was reversed. A curious sort of flat
bottomed boat, like an Ohio river skiff,
was very popular among the ladies.
These boats were polled along, the wa
ter being clear and shallow and the bot
tom firm. The young lady would walk
forward, put down the pole to the bot
tom and walk clear back to the stern,
pushing with all her strength, then
walking forward again, repeat the pro
cess. This is punting, and is very nice
where some pretty girl does the work
and you are lying under parasol with
another pretty girl in the stern cush-
ions. Many of these girls appeared to
be clever oarswomen. All made up a
pretty picture. The young men mostly
wore white flannel pantaloons, white
canvass boating shoes, and blue coats
or none at ali, and some affected the
gay sash of the Venetian gondoier.
The ladies wore all sorts of fancy boat
ing costumes, mostly combinations of
blue and white.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-12-01
A Brave Officer.

Harold de Murat, first officer of the
Estalla, which sailed from Valparaiso
to Puget Sound, was on the deck when
anegro boy who was trying to furl the
mainsail was thrown overheard by a
lurch of the vessel. Murat ordered the
helm put hard down aud the long boat
lowered, but the sea was SO heavy that
the men would not obey. Then he
alone cut away a light boat and jumped
into it and rowed away and managed to
reach the negro, who was 500 yards
astern. He got him into the boat,
rowed back to, the ship, helped him
climb the vessels side, and then, com
pletely exhausted, sank in the boat,
which at that instant wars capsized
He went down and was never seen
again,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-12-01
A Friendly Tip.

They had been married three weeks
and had just gone to housekeeping. He
was starting down town one morning,
and she followed him to the door. They
had their arms wrapped around each
other, and she was saying, "Oh, Clar-
ence, do you think it possible that the
day can ever come when we will part in
anger|
"Why, no, little puss," he said; 'sof
course not. What put that foolish no.
ton into my little brides head, eh?"
"Oh, nothing, dearest; L was only
thinking how perfectly dreadful it would
be if one of us should speak harshly to
tnefother.s
"Well, don't think of such wicked,
utterly impossible things any more, -
he said. awe can never, never quar-
rel.'
ST know it, darling. Goodbye, you
dear old precions, goodbye, and-oh,
wait second. Clarence, I've written a
note to mamma; can't you run around
to the house and leave it for her some
time to-day?"
"Why, yes, deary, if I have time. "
eff you have time2 Oh, Clarence ="
"What is it, little girlie?'
"Oh, to say if you have time to do
almost the very first errand your little
wife asks you to do"
"Well, well, sissy, I'm awfully busy
now"
''Too busy to please me9 Oh, Clar-
ence, you hurt my feelings So"
"Why, child, I"
"I'm not child, Clarence; I'm mar
ried woman and T"
"There, there, my pet. L"
"No, no, Clarence; if I were your
p-p-et, you'd t-t-ry Toto"
"But, Mabel, do be reasonable
ooh, Clarence, don't speak to me
"Mabel, be sensible and"
$50 on, Clarence, go on; break my
heart"
''Stuff and nonsense"
ooh, o-o-oh !"
"What have / said or done %
'As if you need to ask But go on.
Hate me if you will, Clarence; /"
"This is rank nonsense r'
'I'l go back to mamma if you want
me to. She loves me if you don't"
"You must be- crazyl"
"Oh, yes; sneer at me-ridicule me,
Perhaps you had better strike me-
He bangs the door, goes down the
steps on the jump, and races off, NUT
tering something about women being
the "queerest creatures.
Of course, they'll make it up at noon,
and they'll have many such little tiff
in the years to come; and when they're
old they'll say, "We've lived together
forty-fve years, never, no, never, spok-
en- a cross word to each other in all that
time"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-12-01
A Little Present.


One of the New York hackmen to
whom ''Coal Oil Johnny" used to make
presents of team and carriage when he
felt in good humor, is John Mckemy,
a retired ''cabby." ''He was good
enough fellow said McKemy, when
asked about his lavish customer, 'and
IS now living, without any money to
speak of, somewhere out in Iowa. He
lived on the Steele farm, on Oil Creek,
about five miles from Oil City. When
Old Mr.. Steele, his adopted father,
died, Johnny inherited about 5000, 600.
lie came here, and used to make his
own bargains with the hackmen. Look
here, he would say, when the men did
not come to his terms at once, 'what'll
you take for your team, any way
And bless you're heart, he'd buy it out
right, then and there, and give it back
to the hickman when he got out at his
destination
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-12-01

Sweet Faith is like the daisy bright,
With heart of gold and petal white
That blooms from morn until the night,
And wakes from day to day,
Each year, from spring till winters gloom,
Then only sleeps again to bloom
And cheer life's rugged way.
Fair Hope is like the cedar tree;
No matter what the season be,
Its yerdure we may ever see,
1t tells US constantly
Though faded are the wayside flowers,
Though lonely are the wintry hours
Of Immortality.
But Love, the greatest of them all,
blooms winter, summer, spring and fall,
Nor night nor death its strength appal
Through all eternity.
Sweet Faith, Fair Hope, within it dweH;
All flowers of its beauties tell
A perfect trinity
-LEmile Pickhardt in Boston Herald.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-12-01
The Poor Little Ones,

We often see children with red eruptions on
face and hands, rough, scaly skin, and often
sores on the head. These things indicate a
depraved condition of the blood. In the
growing period, children have need of pure
blood by which to build upstrong and healthy
bodies. If DR.. ierces Golden Medical Dis
covery' is given, the blood is purged of its
bad elements, and the child's development
will be healthy, and as it should be- Scrofu-
lous affections, ricketts,, fever-sores, hip-icint
disease, or the other grave maladies and suf-
fering are sure to result from neglect and lack
of proper attention to such cases.
Manufacturers of friedrich say that the
only reliable way to distinguish good clay is
by tasting. If it tastes salty, it is genuine
fire clay; if flat and dull, it is worthless for
fire brick,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-12-01
ALOyely ComDlexion.

''What lovely complexion" we often hear
persons say. 81 wonder what she does for it,"
In every case the purity and real loneliness of
the complexion depends upon the blood.
make their skin smooth and healthy by taking
enough of DIR. Pierce's ''Golden Medical Dis
covery" to drive out the humors lurking in
the system
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-12-01
He AstOnished Her.

"Mabel. 1 have something to say that
think will astonish you"
"What is it Harry?n
81 am going away"
ooh Harry you are always getting
up some nice surprise for me, "-Nerchant
Irapeler.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-12-01
CAN'T GO BEHIND THEM.

There is great intensity of the physical
condition sometimes, and there are facts
which we cannot go behind. In illustra-
ton further of facts which settle the points
of a prompt and permanent cure, the fol-
lowing cases are cited: In 1884 Mrs. Mary
K. Sheed suffered terribly with chronic
neuralgia. She writes from ITO Maryland
Avenue, Washington, d. G. In the first in
stance she states: 81 suffered terribly with
neuralgia in the face; very severe attack
extending to back and shoulders; suffered
Intensely. Tried st. Jacobs Oil; had rsrfts
well rubbed at night; III the morning all
pain gone, magiCally." June 10, 1887, she
writes from 224 Eleventh Street, S. w, as
follows: -Four years ago | sent you vol
untary certificate setting forth the fact that
/ had been great sufferer with neuralgia i'll
my face, neck and shoulders. | obtained
bottle of st. Jacobs Oil, and after three APP
plications ! was entirely relieved from all
pain, and from that time to the present L
have never had a return. The effect was
miraculous" Again, Feb. 6, 1887, Mr.. Il.
G. Troll, St. Louis, Mo, writes: In March,
1881 l suffered terribly with neuralgia; had
suffered nearly three years. Applied st.
Jacobs Oil at S.15 A. NJ. at $40 took the
rag off; at 9 A. NJ. went to work. In less
than five minutes after that the pain was
gone. The one application cured me. Have
not had return of it since" Mr.. E. w.
Spangler, York, Pa, June II, 1887, writes:
"Years ago had neuralgia am not subject TO
it now The cure by the use of st. Jacobs
Oil was permanent. There has been no re-
currence of the painful atfliction." Chas.
w. Law, Jr., Pottstown, Pa, April 10, 1887,
writes ''Was troubled for years with neu-
ralgia in neck and head. Tried st. Jacobs
Oil; had tried different kinds of remedies
without effect One bottle of the former did the
business. No return of pain and aches" In
almost every instance the reports are the same.
Consumption surely Cured.
10 tI,o inf readers
that | have positive remedy for the above
named disease. BY its timely use thousands of
hopeless. cases have been permanently cured.
shall be glad to send two bottles of my remedy
FREE to any of your readers who have con-
sumption if they will send me their Express
and p. o. address. Respectfully,
Il A 81 NCIr M NJ q. Isl Pearl St. n. Y.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-12-01
What to Teach Your Boys.
Teach them to be useful.
Teach them to be truthful.

Teach them to be truthful.
Teach them to be manly.
Teach them to be polite in manners.
Teach them the value of time and
money.
Teach them to avoid tobacco and
strong drink.
Teach them careful and correct bust
ness habits.
Teach them, by example, how to do
things well.
Teach them to ride, drive, jump, run
and swim.
Teach them how to get the most for
their money.
Teach them the habits of cleanliness
and good order.
Teach them to avoid profane and in
decent language.
Teach them to be neat and genteel in
their appearance.
Teach them to be polite to one an
other, helpful to the old and weak, and
kind to animals.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-12-01

THE WARMING pan and the old foot
stove are now among the cherished or
naments of the best houses. If your
ancestor couldn't afford q warming pan
or a foot stove, still you can buy them
from the same dealers who keep up the
supply of grandfather's clocks by having
new ones made when the old ones run
short
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-12-01

Peter Lawson, Swede of Goshen, CAL,
Is 10 years old and confidently expects to live
many years yet, because, as he declares, his
grandmother lived to be 1875 years old.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-12-01

ITCHING PILEs.-Sl7nptOrns - Moisture; in
tense itching and singing; worse by scratching
II allowed to continue tumors form, which Of
ten bleed and ulcerate, becoming very sore
swAYNE's OINTMENT stops the itching and
bleeding, heals liberation, and in many cases
removes the tumors 1t is equally efficacious
In curing all Skin Diseases. DR.. SWAYNE %
son, Proprietors, Phila. BY mail for 50 cents
eWAHNE's OINTMENT for sale by druggists.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-12-01

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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-12-01

There is an unprecedented demand for
cider brrrels in Connecticut. All the farmers !
except the deacons are making cider, and the |
deacons are putting in few barrels of vim
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-12-01

The venerable Simon Cameron takes great
pride in his cattle. His particular pride is a
steer that girths over eight feet and weighs
g, 100 pounds.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-12-01

TayIor's Ca tlrrh Remedy
will certainly cure you, or no charge. Treatise
on Catarrhal Troubles mailed free. Address,
City Hal Pharmacy. 264 Broadway N Y
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-12-01

Mild, soothing, and healing is DIR. Sage's
Catarrh Remedy.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-12-01

Ringing Noises

In the ears sometimes roaring, buzzlng sound, or
swapping like the report of pistol caused by
tarrh, that exceedingly disagreeable and very
mon disease. Loss of smell hearing also results
from catarrh. Hoods Sarsaparilla the great blood
purifier is peculiarly successful remedy for this
disease, which it cures by purifying the blood. II
you suffer from catarrh, try Hoods Sarsapara, the
peculiar medicine.
have been troubled with that annoying disease
nasal catarrh and have taken all kinds blood puri
hers but never found relief till used Hoods Sarsa
parila,"-J. L. ROUTE harrisburg. Ky.
Hoods SarSapariIla
Sold by all druggists. 81 six for So Prepared only
by c. l. HOOD CO.. Apothecaries Lowell Mass.
100 Doses One Dollar
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ROYAL GLUE" mends anything! Broken
China, Glass, Wood. Free walls at Drugs & Gro.
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